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Bowling pictures up! Click -here- to access them. but dont save pictures from there, as the pictures are quite small. msg me in msn to get the pics.

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CONGRATULATIONS TRICIA ON YOUR MARVELLOUS ACHIEVEMENT AT THE MASTERS! THE WHOLE OF CJC BOWLING IS PROUD OF YOU! CONGRATS ONCE AGAIN!

i'm like so happy for the cj bowling team. rjc has travis tay, tjc has rodney ser. but who cares, for cjc has our own star in tricia! =))))

CHEERS!

today feels incomplete. i feel uneasy. i have some unanswered questions. many actually. well, there's nothing in my power to remedy it - they are all caused by external factors. is it really so hard to get one's life back on track?

new pics uploaded in cjc06 album.

aims? yea i have them. heck i have dreams too; some really nice ones, and some really lame ones. i've many things i wanna accomplish. the highest priority at the moment is of course to score well in the up-coming mid year exams, like 4 Bs? but it's like do i even have a choice. this is not really an aim, this is a must-do. because there's no way i can accept dropping out of school in the middle of this year. i'd rather be dead then...

then there's bowling. the school nationals is gonna be over, but there is one day left. there's not much chance to achieve my 'gei-kiang' aim of 180 average now, but i aim of a 165 average now.. thursday thursday! after nationals it's the dream of being cjc's bowling president. it sounds so far-fetched in my case, but aren't dreams always so far-fetched in the first place?

then there are some of my deepest dreams that i have. for one, it is to be someone that somebody can or will look up to. but so far, i dont see any qualities in me that deserves that honor. though i always thought in the past that i wld go for leadership training camp this year, somehow or rather this chance slipped from my hands. i hate to say but it's all because i'm not the 'best' male j1 bowler this year. thus, i've let slip of something that could at least nurture me to reach my aim.

good gracious me. thinking back, i think this is lame. there are sometimes i'd dream of having a perfect family. a really perfect family, for example a rich and happy family with really fun, adorable and respectful siblings (i being the eldest) and parents that are like your friends, living in a beautiful home and house (just a freehold designer terrace with a nice garden with a pond) with sparingly some fun lil squabbles. however, all these are only but a fairy tale.

come to think of the previous para, i now know why sometimes, subconsciously, i'll get jealous when i see families having a great time out.

and i have always dreamt for some real & close friends that i will never lose contact with and that i will always seek for advice and a listening ear when i'm troubled. currently if i'm troubled i'll find some random ppl if i think that that someone is trustworthy. aye..

now about my aims. i really really aimed to be the top of anything and everything i do. but somehow not 1 have been realised yet. yea i've written a post entirely on this before, so i'm not gonna elaborate.

and then i've always aimed to be rich. how nice it is to be. not like damn filthy rich, but rich enough to give myself and my family a good life in the future. but looking at the present, it's very hard to imagine myself sitting on a $1000 chair and shaking my legs.

i still have many other aims. but like the word suggests, they are all but just aims. reality ain't gonna be that rosy. reaching the aims ain't gonna be easy. maybe i'm just cut out to be someone ordinary, just like a grain of sand on the beach.

5 beautiful songs to accompany one's indulgence in reminiscence at the moment (not in order):-

1. Ghost Of You And Me - BB Mak
2. All About Loving You - Bon Jovi
3. L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole
4. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
5. Run - Snow Patrol

enjoy, if you can get hold of them. ;)

Qwerty Query: Why Do We Still Type This Way?
Fri May 19, 2006 8:03PM EDT

I went to our town's middle school last night to hear Willard Daggett, an education consultant, talk about the dismal job we are doing educating our kids for a global economy they will be hard-pressed to compete in. Big issues, but one small one caught my ear.

The Qwerty keyboard. We've been using it since the 1870s, when typewriter inventor C.L. Sholes moved letters around the keyboard so typewriter keys would stop jamming.

Well, we don't use typewriters anymore. Technology has caught up with human dexterity. Jamming keys are no longer a problem. And the gymnastics our fingers do on the Qwerty keyboard can exacerbate repetitive stress problems.

In the 1930s, Washington State University Professor August Dvorak came up with a more common-sense design that placed some of the most commonly typed letters, including vowels, on the home row. (Pictured above) A typist can type about 400 of the most common words in the English language on the Dvorak keyboard, compared with about 100 on the Qwerty keyboard.

"Why," Daggett asked, "aren't my grandchildren learning to type on a keyboard that is 28 percent faster and won't lead to carpal tunnel syndrome?"

He asks a good question. One, I have to admit, I have never given much thought since the Qwerty keyboard is all I've known. Anyone can change the keyboard layout to Dvorak settings in Windows. And many who are battling RSI (repetitive stress injuries) have done so. But, as this Forbes article suggests, isn't it time for a new universal keyboard design that can help speed typing without mangling a new generation of hands?

taken from: http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/devlin/404

Aye. nationals have been a blast so far. though my score do not really shine. it's a shame really, because i spent a lot of money on training this year. however, it's not finished yet so there's still hope. now i'll aim for top 40. trained at yishun safra again yesterday. dint do well. luckily its training..

but my voice is hoarse. from all the shouting and cheering at the competition. it won't deter me from shouting more next week though.

so after the days of competition, i'm lagging behind in studies. guess i'll be staying back in school to study more frequently to catch up. and tomorrow i got detention because i was 'late' for the tournament on fri. -_- the tournament started at arnd 8.15 and mr ho wanted us to get there by 7.45. malcolm, michelle and i gt there like 7.49 and we were told we were gonna have detention on mon. lol. i was damn blur la i forgotten there was a time to report by. cos it felt like hols alr.

many things happened since the last time i blogged (as in writing, not photo-blogging). really nice and also really sad stuff. may be next time i'll translate them into words. for now, it's studying time.

DO YOU KNOW GP MID YEAR IS IN 5 DAYS TIME?

mangogirl. :)

All these things that i've done - the killers


When there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on

I wanna stand up, I wanna let go
You know, you know - no you don't, you don't
I wanna shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand

Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no

Help me out
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the back burner
You know you got to help me out

And when there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
These changes ain't changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to be

Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the back burner
You know you got to help me out, yeah.
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down

I got soul, but I'm not a soldier x10

Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the back burner
You know you got to help me out, yeah.
You're gonna bring yourself down, yeah.
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the back burner
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down

Over and out, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done
All these things that I've done
If you can hold on
If you can hold on

i bowled well in yesterday's bowling training!

for all the shit i'm been having, bowling is my life buoy, my remedy. i feel free only when i bowl. and i feel good everytime i exclaim after a 'strike'. but when it's back to studies...

i just feel so shackled by that piece of contract which says,"students are required to perform well at every major exam along the way... ... should i fail to meet your expectation (passes in ALL subjects), for whatever reason, i will automatically withdraw myself from the College." it was so ridiculous imagining yourself being a slave to a piece of creased paper. but in this position i am...

PLEASE. BE A BELIEVER OF MY LIES, AND LET ME REST IN PIECES.

HOW POLITICS CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND.

MY LIFE'S A MAZE. I'M STILL TRYING TO FIGURE.

PULL ME AWAY FROM STRESS? OR PUSH ME AWAY FROM COMPLACENCY? OR TRY TO SQUEEZE ME INTO THAT FINE LINE WHERE PERFECT LIVES, IN DOING THAT, SQUEEZE MY LIFE OUT OF ME?

SAVE IT FOR LATER. I THINK GOD CAN EXPLAIN.

THE DEVIL IS MY ANGEL... THEN WHERE'S MY DEVIL?

a summary of my 1.personal stuff.2.cca shit.3.life.4.studies. so far.
lastly,fuck all the arts subjects. i know i can't write essays for nuts. but too late.

i wonder when will be the time that i can pass my history tests/assignments. i've 7 more weeks to figure it out, if not i'm so screwed. act smart la. think h1 history easy... good luck to me man. ha. im feeling stressed. argh.

bowling nationals in 2 weeks time!